All-Star voting is underway – jump for joy

In case you’ve missed it, fans are now able to vote for the All-Star Game here and the Dodgers certainly have some worthy vote recipients. I believe the first batch of results will be coming back soon and I’d imagine that Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp will be among the top outfield vote getters, but it’s up to you guys to vote for your favorite Dodgers over the next few weeks.

As a kid, my brother and I would wander around the Dodger Stadium and get as many ballots as we could from the ushers and fill them all out for every Dodger. I’m pretty sure that somewhere at my parents’ house, I have an All-Star ballot from every year of the 80s and 90s and somewhere in my own home, I’ve got all of them since I started working at the Dodgers inthe mid 90s.

But now that the All-Star teams are primarly decided by the online vote, we can’t rely wholly on our fans in-stadium to stuff the ballot boxes! Remember, you can vote up to 25 times so show your support for your team.

Anyone have some fun stories of All-Star balloting over the years? Share them here and we hope you’ll take part in a longtime tradition throughout baseball.

My funnest phony All-Star ballot memory is asking an usher for a ballot. He handed me about 40 of them. Ron Cey’s chad was already punched out of all of them.
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Personally, I can’t stand the All-Star Game as it is now, especially since the winner gets home field advantage in the Series. This ballot box stuffing stinks as much as the owner’s box in Dodger Stadium.
.SELL THE TEAM!

“Whatever happened to getting to the all-star game on merit?”
By enchantedTheBeav on May 12, 2011 12:35 pm
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Earning things on merit has gone the same way as taking responsibility for your actions. Out the window, not in fashion. Sad, ain’t it?

If Ellis is the catcher of the future I’d rather give up alot of AB’s instead letting him sit on the bench. I’d rather have Ellis starting and Barajas didn’t resign. It would be a no brainer if Santana was here and Ellis sitting on our bench.

The problem with this rain delay that even with a normal game, they were expected to arrive in LA at 2am (pst) only to have to play tomorrow night at DS. Who in the hell makes up the schedule? Why didn’t they play a day game? Idiots!!!

Some pretty surprising names on the lower end of that list. Not so surprising that the first Dodger you see is #86. And what’s Carroll – #248 out of 251? An argument could be made he should bat #2 since he can’t drive anyone in, but can get on base.
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But alas, no one in the entire organization pays any attention to stats.

I don’t know why Schieffer seems so perplexed by the Dodgers’ financial complexity. Frank is the ultimate shill artist. It used to be that the carnival shills practiced the pea and shell game and had you guess which one had the pea, but they only used three shells – Frank has brought up the shill standards to no less than 26 separate entities involved with the Dodgers. However, his sleight of hand is so superior that there isn’t a pea (nor dollars) among any of them. This has just been a subterfuge to create the maximum borrowing opportunities, all excercised to the limit, until there’s nothing left to pay the bills. All of you lenders have been HAD.

Bear – Lest we forget the IRS. How can Frank McCourt be pulling out over $100 million from the Dodgers organization into his own accounts without that counting as income that accrues to Frank McCourt? The IRS should be doing some serious audits to determine why the McCourts have not paid any income taxes in years.

I wish no Dodger would make it to the all star game this year. Have you noticed that any Dodger playing in the game over recent years comes back to play far under-achieving ball during the second half of the season? The latest being JB.

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